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Rumpole: The Gentle Art of Blackmail & other stories : Four BBC Radio 4 dramatisations, eAudiobook MP3 eaudioBook

Rumpole: The Gentle Art of Blackmail & other stories : Four BBC Radio 4 dramatisations eAudiobook MP3

Narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch, Full Cast, Timothy West

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Benedict Cumberbatch plays the young Horace Rumpole in this second stellar collection of court cases, also starring Timothy West as the older RumpoleRumpole and the Man of GodIt is 1959, and Rumpole must defend a clergyman accused of shoplifting who, although he clearly did not commit the crime, is curiously reluctant to be cross-examined under oath.

Meanwhile, Hilda (she who must be obeyed) has big news…Rumpole and the Explosive Evidence Rumpole defends a well-known safe blower and exposes the underhand behaviour of one Dirty Dickerson, a senior police officer who is quite prepared to tamper with evidence. Rumpole and the Gentle Art of Blackmail In 1964 Rumpole returns to Oxford, where he studied law, to defend a young gardener who is accused of blackmailing the Master of St Joseph’s College.

Their friendship had provoked rumours of homosexuality – still illegal in those days – and the Master says he has been threatened with a public accusation. Rumpole and the Expert Witness Rumpole is asked to defend a GP, Dr Ned Dacre, who is accused of murdering his wife, Sally.

The plot thickens when the local pathologist turns out to have history with Dr Ned…

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